The milestone of every year that represents us getting one year older than we were. 

Today was mine.

Now I must admit, now that I am older I don't quite get excited about it like I did when I was a kid. I find that other people are more excited about it than I am personally, but I wouldn't be able to tell you why that is. Maybe the thought of growing up just frightens me, and I wish that I could be like Peter Pan and the lost boys, and never grow up.

That's not to say that I am truly appreciative of the people who made my day better and filled it with the extra sunshine that one deserves on their special day.

To my family for cheering me up all day and singing happy birthday to me on the phone multiple times.

To my roommate who went out of her way to make me and ice cream cake, of which she is the first person (Outside of my family) to ever make me a cake.

To the girls I work with back home for sending me pictures of the dogs from work with their messages, it cheered me up and made me feel a little bit homesick.

And to everyone who went out of their way to say Happy Birthday, I'm not sure I deserve it from some of you, but thank you anyway.

I hope you all had a wonderful Monday, and that someone puts that little bit of sunshine into your day, like you all deserve.

xx Kat 

Your own happiness

I have talked about happiness multiple times on this blog because I feel that it is an important topic. It's something that I struggle with frequently and it's something that I feel is important to talk about.

Over the past couple of days I have been questioning my happiness. Over thinking every small inch of my life and wondering if I have made the right choices. It has been keeping me up at night and has stopped me from enjoying things of recent. 

It's when these types of questions are swimming around in my brain that I lose hope and passion. And this eats me up inside, causing doubt and stress. Even the things that make me happy can't cheer me up.

But I want you all to know is that there is always hope, there is always a silver lining. There is always a second side to that coin. Always remember that.

Never lose hope.

I have decided that from this month I will be doing a monthly happiness blog post. Whether that's sharing happy moments, giving you ideas on cheering up, sharing with you my personal cheering up methods (which there are a lot of) and just being here to let you know that there is always hope. I hope to always be here for you.

I will most likely write these posts when I am having a bad day, as a way to cheer myself up.

What are some of the things that cheer you up? 

xx Kat